Click here to register for the Schmooze with me. After you've registered, you'll be given the contact info for reserving rooms at the lodge.
This year the Fall Shareware Schmooze is being held in this lodge
and state park, 20 miles east of the beautiful college town of Bloomington,
Indiana. The park is located about two miles east of the small village of
Nashville, Indiana.
(Because we don't want outsiders grabbing our rooms, I am being coy about naming the park in text, so the search engines won't find us based on the park.)
This is the largest state park in Indiana, with over 15000 acres of
beautiful woods. There are many miles of scenic trails for walking,
mountain biking, and horseback riding.
Many of us will spend at last one day popping over to Bloomington, to view the sights there. We'll visit the spot where I met Melanie, my wife, on September 16, 1966. We'll see the Slocum Puzzle Collection in the Lilly Library. The display room has about 400 of the 30000 mechanical puzzles in the collection. We'll stop into the Art Museum across the street. (Admission is free to all the Bloomington sights mentioned.)
There are signs at every intersection within the park, directing you
towards the lodge. From the park's North entrance, you just follow the
road in about a mile, just over the crest of a big hill, until you see
this big sign on the left.
You turn left at the sign, and follow that road about a half mile to the lodge.
There are a couple of nice schmoozing lounges in the lodge. This one is
towards the rear of the building.
The same lounge from a dufferent angle.
There are rooms right next to the lounge.
Most of our reserved rooms, though, are in the annex building, just
to the right of the main building in this picture.
This lounge is in the front of the building, overlooking the lobby and
next to the restaurant entrance.
There is a game room just downstairs from the rear lounge.
The lodge has a full-service restaurant, serving three meals every day.
Abe, the namesake of the lodge, was a cartoon character created in 1904;
a sort of Hoosier hillbilly, the prececessor of (and quite possibly
the inspiration for) L'il Abner.